Moto G Stylus 5G for Beginners

welcome into the video i am your tech guy Wayne and today I want to walk you through how to use the Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 for beginners this will be a full beginner's walkthrough and I'm going to go over everything you'll need to know to learn how to use this phone we're going to start with just a tour of the buttons and walk you through um how to navigate the phone from there we'll go over how to download apps we'll go over how to set up your email we'll also go over how to make the text size larger and we'll just try to touch on all the little things that someone who is new to this phone would need to know so make sure you watch all the way to the end so you don't miss any important information now let's start with just a tour of the phone and I'm going to just turn the screen off here and just show you the buttons let's start with the left side of the phone so there are no buttons on this side but there is a SIM card tray and this is where you would pop out the uh your carrier SIM card for your service it's also where you would put in a memory card for the phone as well so if you have an old memory card from another phone you can pop it in right here i will also put a link on screen right here to some recommended memory cards that will go well with this phone on the right side of the phone here you'll find your volume up and volume down buttons and you'll find your power sleep button now the way this button works here is you're simply going to tap the button to wake up the phone tap it again to put the phone asleep notice that the screen just went dim the phone is still on it's just asleep and if you hold down on this button for one second it will bring up your power menu that you can use to basically power off the phone simply tap on this button right here to power off the phone or this button on the bottom here to restart the phone at the bottom of the phone you'll find your auxiliary port which is where you'll plug in uh headphones wired headphones here you'll find your charging port now the charging type for this phone is called a USBC or a type-C so if you ever need to replace your charging cable you need to go to the store and ask for a type C or USBC charging type okay and then to the right here you'll find your stylus pen and this is what will allow you to write on the screen and also control the screen using the pen okay so we finished our tour of the phone and now let's talk about how to unlock the phone or how to get into the phone and then how to navigate the phone from the home screen to wake up the phone you'll need to press on the power button one time here and then put your finger on the screen and drag up the screen okay let me show you that one more time press the power button to get to the lock screen take your finger put it on the screen and just drag up that will take you into the phone and this is what is called the home screen now the home screen is kind of the main section of the phone here and you'll have uh a few of the most important apps on the phone will be here you'll have this home row at the bottom here this is buttons you'll use to navigate the phone here and then as we swipe down on the screen this will take us to what is called the notification panel so let's just take a minute and go over these different areas first just before I move into that part I want to go over some terminology I'll be using for the video so you'll hear me use the word apps quite a bit and just know that apps is short for applications think of how computers have programs phones have applications or apps for short and apps is referring to these little icons here these are the programs or the applications of the phone at the very bottom of the screen here you have this little circle this is your home button and pressing this button will take you back to this screen which is called the home screen if I were to go to this app here which is Google Chrome this is your web browser or if you want to go on the internet if I tap on Google Chrome and let's say I want to go to a website I'm simply going to tap in the box that says search or type and then I can type in a website for example aol.com and tap on this arrow to go to that website so let's say I'm searching through the web and now I want to get back to the home screen i'm going to press on this home button at the bottom and that'll take me right back to the home screen so that's all this button does it just takes you right back to this screen okay when in doubt you get in trouble press that home button it take you back to this screen if you ever don't see these buttons at the bottom you simply need to swipe up from the bottom of the phone if you just swipe up then these buttons will show up sometimes they they are hidden for example if you're watching a video then they might be hidden so you'll just need to swipe up okay now to the right here we have what is called the recent apps button now notice I just went to Google Chrome the web browser and we were searching the web and then we went back to the home screen well Google Chrome is still running in the background of the phone the only difference is I moved away from that to get back to the home screen if I want to go back to Google Chrome I can one tap on the Chrome icon or I can tap on this button the recent apps button and then I can see all the apps that I previously had open they're going to show up on in this section which is called the recent apps section so I can tap here to go right back to the Google Chrome page I was looking at which was AOL and I can continue to look through the website like I was doing now if I'm finished finished with Google Chrome and I want to totally close it out I can tap on that recent apps button and I can swipe up and when you swipe up it closes out the app so that's how you close apps so that they're not running in the background of the phone you can do that for each app that you see on this uh section or you can tap the close all button and that will just close every single app that's running in the background of the phone to the left here you have what's called your back button and all this does is take you back one step if you want to see all the apps on the phone you're going to swipe up on the home screen let's do that again that's important we're on the home screen if we swipe or we drag up the screen this will take us to what is called the app drawer and this is where you'll find all the apps that are currently installed on the phone now I'm going to go to the settings this is the settings wheel right here we'll tap on settings and let's say I want to change how long my screen stays on i can tap on display and I can also tap on screen timeout and you can adjust the time here so I wanted to go in the settings i wanted to make this change now that this is done I'm going to use this back button to go back one page so now I'm on this page i can press it again to go back another page now I'm on the main screen of the settings app and if I press it again and there's nowhere else to go it's going to take me out of that app so that's just a brief run through of these three buttons those are three of the most important buttons on the phone because they really control how you navigate the phone home button recent apps button and back button now so far if you're learning and this video is helping you out please take a minute and bump that like button down below it is your way of saying thank you that cost you nothing and it also helps to get the video shared out to more people who have this phone to help them with learning it so next we're going to go over what is called the notification panel we're going to stay on the home screen but we're going to drag down the screen and when you do that it'll take you to here which is called the notification panel let me try that again you're on the home screen drag down the screen like this and here you'll get notifications from all the different apps that you have installed on the phone for example if you get a new email it's going to show up in this section if you get a Facebook notification it'll show up in this section and you can scroll through and usually it's a much longer list of different apps that are just sending you messages if someone sends you a text message if you get a missed call it's all going to show up in this section so you want to monitor this section this is how you know what's going on with your phone and at the top of the screen here you'll find your uh some shortcuts to different settings on the phone these are the most frequently used setting on the phone these are the most frequently used settings on the phone so we have our Wi-Fi icon here our mobile data our Bluetooth our do not disturb and if I drag down it'll bring up even more options so my auto rotate my Google wallet all these different options i can also swipe left and see another page of shortcuts so these are all just different shortcuts to different settings that are on the phone you even have a shortcut for a system update if you want to check to see if your phone needs an update you can come all the way over here and tap there and it will let you know if there is a new update available at the top here you'll have a brightness bar that'll let you adjust how bright or how dim the screen is now the phone is normally set to automatic but if you start controlling it from here then it will set it to manual and then you can make it as bright or as dim as you like i want to go over just these first couple because I think they're really important for you to know how to use so let's say you want to connect to your home Wi-Fi network you want to hope put your finger on this little Wi-Fi button now I'm already connected to my network but don't worry about that just simply take your finger and press down for one second and this will take you to the Wi-Fi menu i'm going to press okay on this prop here and now look it says Wi-Fi and it's going to show me all the available Wi-Fi networks in the current area that I'm in you'll want to look for your specific Wi-Fi network what is the name once you find it and when you tap on it it's going to give you a popup like this and it's going to ask you to enter the password keep in mind all Wi-Fi passwords are case sensitive which means if there's a capital W you'll need to press this little arrow up which will give you all the capital letters and then you can tap on whatever the capital letter is and then it will drop the keyboard back to lowercase and then you can enter the rest of the password and whatever numbers there are and then you hit the check box to make the connection now I didn't put in the right password so guess what it's going to reject what I just put in and it's going to ask me to put in a new password or it might just try to find a different network available but nonetheless that is a brief run through of how to connect to a Wi-Fi network there is no limit to how many networks you can you can sign into on your phone so if you want to connect to your home network find it and connect if you go to a friend's house you can simply connect to their network if you go to a Starbucks you can connect to their network obviously be careful public Wi-Fi networks are not as secure but uh wherever you are if there is a network you can connect to it following this system now swipe down again you also have a Bluetooth switch here now notice some of the switches are lit up in yellow and some of them are dimmed for example mobile data is dimmed out and this one is pretty dim when it's dim it means that it's turned off and when it's highlighted or lit up in yellow it means that it is turned on so if you want it to turn off your Bluetooth just simply tap on the button and now Bluetooth is off if you want to turn off Wi-Fi tap on the Wi-Fi icon and now Wi-Fi is off to turn it back on just simply tap again and just like that and then now those those uh antennas are back on for Bluetooth same thing simply long press put your finger on the button for one second it will take you to this menu and here it will be you'll tap on pair new device and then it will begin to look for all the available devices in the area so those are kind of the main two most important um switches that people tend to use up here but again you swipe down look through this list because you should know what shortcuts you have and when they might come in handy okay all right so that brings us to the end of sort of navigating the phone now next I want to go deeper into how to download applications i showed you earlier that by swiping up on the screen this takes you to what is called your app drawer and this is where you'll find all the apps that are on the phone but what if you want to download a new app for example what if you want to download Uber Eats because you want to order dinner and have it delivered well you'll need to go to what is called the Play Store the Play Store is where you'll find all the apps that are available for your phone and where you can download those apps to the phone if you tap on this search button at the bottom of the screen you want to tap it two times it will bring up your keyboard and it will bring up the search box at the top so you can simply type in the name of the app that you want to download or you can tap on this microphone in the upper right corner and just simply say the name so for example let's say I want to download Uber to the phone tap on the microphone uber and now it's going to recommend Uber and sometimes you will see an ad so pay attention to this here you see a Lyft app as well and right above it it says sponsored this was an ad that was generated based on what I searched this is the app I really want which is the Uber app now if I tap where it says Uber I can swipe up and I can look at pictures to make sure I have the right app so yep okay that's Uber good hit my back button to go out of that and let's swipe back down and normally this button will say install but I've actually already downloaded Uber to the phone so it just says open but you'll want to look for a green install button and by tapping that it will download that app to your phone sometimes this button is not going to say install sometimes it's going to have a price and if it has a price it means that the app you're trying to download is not free there is a cost and so you want to be mindful of that now so we downloaded Uber where would I find Uber on the phone now you can swipe left and right and there are different pages that will show up on the home screen but we don't see Uber which is no problem so what you're going to do is swipe up go to our app drawer and then this app drawer section will organize all your apps in alphabetical order and we'll simply go to the use section and oh there's our Uber i can tap on Uber to begin the process of trying to get a ride so that is a brief run through of how to download apps and where to find them after you've installed them next let's go over how to make the text size larger if you'll notice for example the there's little uh captions underneath the apps here and the words are really small so let's go over how to make the words larger and this will not just be for your apps but for when you're sending a text message or you're on the web on the web like Google Chrome it'll make the text larger in just about every section of the phone so we'll swipe up and we're going to swipe up again and go to the settings app from here go to display and then go to display size and font i went there really fast go to display size and text tap there and here you have font size you have display size and you have bold now watch as I drag and make the font size bigger you'll begin to see the titles of the apps much clearer there we go so now be careful making it too big because at some point you won't even be able to read the names of the different apps so you want to try to find a sweet spot which I think this is the sweet spot right now next is the display size which makes everything bigger or smaller so if I start to bring this up you'll see how the size of the icon is getting larger as well as the text there we go so there will be uh a lot more space to see your apps and hopefully you'll be able to read the names of the apps a lot easier you can also make the text bold this is enabled right now it makes the text bold easier to read and there's some other add-ons here as well so that's a brief rundown of how to make the text size larger so you can easily see what's going on on your phone next let's go over how to control the sound on the phone so for example if you're trying to put the phone on vibrate or silent what you'll need to do is tap on either the power up button or the power down button when you press it a menu is going to pop up on the right here and you'll tap on this little speaker this puts the phone on vibrate this puts it in silent if you press it again it will turn all the sound back up now this menu goes away fast and it's a little frustrating so you got to get get it pretty quick but here I can raise or lower the volume to my either music or my video now if I tap underneath that little bar there's three dots right here and if we tap on that this will bring up our basically EQ and it basically is the sound for um the different functions on the phone so first we have our alarm clock sound you can control how loud that's going to ring then you have this one which is for your notifications and you can take that up and down as well here you have your call volume so when you um make a call and also as you drag it up and down it'll give you a preview so as I'm moving this it says this is your ring volume how loud the phone is going to ring whereas this is the volume of how loud the actual call is going to sound when the when the call is coming through the receiver and then this is the media volume which is for uh when you listen to music or when you listen to a video all that comes through there now you can tap on the settings wheel here to get to the actual sound and vibration section the settings and here you'll find even more options of things you can control you can also change the uh sound when you get a text message which is right here your um default notification sound you can just come in here and pick a different sound some of these will be annoying so you got to be careful that one's pretty easy when you're done press okay and here you can change your ringtone sound by tapping on phone ringtone and just testing out some of the options here press okay so now we've just changed our ringtone and our sound when we get a text message so that's just a brief run through of how to control the sound now next let's go over how to set up your email on the phone so there's two ways to do this the easiest way is tapping on this Google folder you'll find on the home screen and go to Gmail you might say to yourself Wayne I don't have a Gmail so I'm not going to use the Gmail app right and the answer would be wrong you can actually use the Gmail app to sign into non-Gmail email types to do that you simply need to go to the upper right corner and tap on the little icon mine is red but yours might be a different color and tap on add another account this will take you to the main screen now if you've never set up an email on the phone then this is the first thing you would have already seen and these are the supported email types so Google uh Outlook Hotmail Live Yahoo Exchange and Office 365 if you don't see your email in this section your email type you can tap on other and try to enter the email address and password and sometimes it will work but sometimes it will give you issues so plan B which I lean on quite a bit is go to the home screen go to the Play Store which is where we download apps and try this trick so tap on the search button twice to bring up the keyboard and take you to the search next in the bottom left corner you're going to see a question mark and a one two three tap on that button and tap on the at symbol and all you're going to do is simply tap on whatever the end of your email address is so if it's at uh AOL you type in AOL.com if it's spCglobal.net net whatever it is just type in whatever is the back half of your email address and then tap on the magnifying glass to do a search and then it will recommend apps that are compatible with that email type so these are a couple here and as you can see at the very top this was the first recommendation hey download the actual AOL app to manage your email makes so much sense so I can tap on open sometimes it's going to say install so you want to look for installer open and from here I can tap on inbox and then it will give me a popup that'll ask what my signin information is my email address and my password so that's a brief rundown of just signing into your accounts and some of the things you might navigate in the process of signing in now once you're signed in we're going to go back to Gmail and uh this is a walkthrough of just simply how to uh use the email app so here you'll have you'll see a bunch of different emails that have already come through now the ones that say Google Pixel I don't need those so I can tap on this little green bubble to the left to select that email and then I'm going to select these two as well and this one and this one so I have these five emails selected and I can simply come up here and tap on the trash can to delete these five emails so that's how easy it is to delete emails in bulk you just have to check that check the circle next to it first and then hit delete once you selected all the pictures you want to delete next let's go over how to check your emails so here we've already gone over deleting emails let's say I want to just read an email that came through this is a Samsung email so here it's like an advertisement i can look through it i can tap on any one of these little buttons here to go to that product and get more information yeah so this is an email from Samsung but there's nothing in here that I see that is important so I'm just going to tap on the trash can to delete this email now here's a different email from Fitbit let's see from Fitbit and they're talking about changing my password now I can reply to this email by tapping on this little arrow that points to the left and then it will give me an option it will automatically put the email in a reply and it'll add re dot and then it'll give me space to begin to type this was just how you respond to an email now if you want to attach a file or a picture tap on the paperclip in the top right corner and here you can attach a file or you can attach you can insert it from a a Google Drive i just do the first option is easier and you can type something hi there now upper right corner we're going to tap on this button here to send off the email and that's basically just sending it right back to the person who sent it to you but with whatever your preference is about what they're asking so that's how you download um apps and different things now next you have a search box at the top of your email that says search and mail you can use that if you're trying to find a specific email that you received um could be yesterday last week last month tap in that search and mailbox and then you can type in whatever you think was in the email and then it will try to recommend uh emails based on your criteria next let's go over how to set a password on the phone so you can protect your information to do this we're going to swipe down from the top of the screen swipe down again and in at the bottom of the screen you'll find a settings wheel tap on the settings wheel from here you're going to swipe down all the way to security and privacy and here you want to tap on set screen lock okay now right now there's no password on the phone so we want to go to either a pin which is a four to six digit number or you can go to a pattern let's do a pattern and we're just going to make it an L just like this hit next and then make it another L just like this hit confirm and now when you need to sign into the phone this is what you're going to see so this is the lock screen but if I try to drag up the screen it's now going to give me this and it's saying enter the corresponding pattern to unlock the phone and we'll put that L in there and guess what now we're in the phone so we officially have set a uh a pattern to lock the phone and from here you can do a lot of other really cool things you can go up and actually set another screen lock so type on So go to device unlock and from here we're going to tap on fingerprint put in that that pattern hit setup got it and the fingerprint sensor is in the screen so at the bottom you'll see an icon of a little fingerprint and just begin to press down on the screen and here it's going to begin to learn your fingerprint so you can then just unlock the phone with your fingerprint just like this you'll just lift your thumb and just drop it down just like that and just keep going until it tells you to stop but try to slightly move your finger you don't want to always put it down the same way cuz it's trying to learn your fingerprint and there we go we officially added a fingerprint and now we can use that to unlock the phone now um I recommend you always add more than one fingerprint and add one from each finger because let's say you have food or grease or something on this thumb you're not going to be able to unlock the phone but you may not have something on this thumb so tap add another and just simply go through the same process with a finger on another hand i'm going to hit done let's go ahead and lock the screen or put it to sleep press the power button again and now I can just simply press like this to unlock the phone so super easy you can also set up your face to unlock the phone as well you will just tap on face unlock and follow the prompts so we officially have a password our phone is secure the last thing I want to take you through is using the stylus when you take out that pen this menu is going to pop up which is super cool and here you can get to shortcuts that correspond to the pen so for example if I want to write a note I'm going to tap on the plus and here I'm in a note that I can begin to write things so maybe I want to write a quick shopping list eggs milk butter and I can also draw a little square so once I find them at the store I can just check them off just like that so that's one option of things you can do with the pen now you'll notice this little gray icon it's a circle and it has a little pin in it this is what will bring up that menu that we just talked about so if you ever want to get back to this menu just tap on that little bubble to bring it up and get to these shortcuts so there's a moto node there's a screenshot which is just taking a picture of your screen that's an easy way to do that there is a free form crop which is just whatever you're looking at on screen you can just crop down a section of that by tapping on the free form crop there is the gift maker and there is a handwriting calculator that you can basically write out your calculations and then it will solve it for you so that's just a brief run through of the pen and some of the things that you can do with it pretty cool it's just a nifty tool to have with you and you can swipe up and down and you can use it to control a lot of the other functions on the phone so um people don't always tend to use these shortcuts they sometimes just use the pen just to navigate the screen which is totally fine so it's whatever works for you i just want to make sure you know about the other things that are available for the pen so this brings us to the end of our video i hope you guys found this helpful uh my goal in this video was to just simplify the Moto G Stylus 5G for anyone who is new using this phone so if I did that and I made this phone a little bit easier for you to use and you feel more comfortable with it please take a minute and bump that like button down below again it cost you nothing and it really helps to push this video out to more people and hopefully help new users who have this phone to have a guide to have a better experience so please take a minute bump that like button i will link here to my playlist i have other videos on this phone so if you want to keep learning cool things you can do with this phone check out that playlist and here I'll link another really helpful video as well thanks again for watching guys take care and as always have a good one